The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-14
EVA'S LESSON.
A Story Young Husbands and
Wives Should Read.

Wives Should Read.
There were indications of n domestic
storm brewing as Richard Hayes entered
his house at seven o'clock one fine
evening in June; his little three-year-
old Mary ran eagerly to meet him, and
baby Harry stretched out his dimpled
hands and prattled glad welcome,
but his wife's face showed that no
pleasant greeting awaited him from
her.
$50 you have condescended to put
in an appearance at lastr' she said an
grily. Il concluded you intended to
stay all night watching that silly base
ball game and guzzling beer"
Richards face flushed painfully at
the last taunt, so wholly undeserved.
Although harsh words were becoming
of almost daily occurrence in his
once happy home, he felt them most
keenly now as they were uttered in the
presence of an intimate friend, who had
never before seen these too frequent
outbursts of anger.
"Well, come to supper" Eva said
ungraciously, 'you have kept US wait
ing an hour, and I've no doubt Clarice
is half starved. ~
Clarice protested pleasantly, and
Richard made courteous excuses for his
delay, but Eva was too angry and inn
patient to heed them. Her sharp words
and unkind reproaches marred all the
pleasure there might have been ut her
neatly-spread supper-table.
At the earliest moment Richard es-
capped from the unpleasant home atmos-
phere and took his little ones out for a
walk.
To Clarice the whole scene had been
painful. Slight indications of growing
unhappiness between her friend and
her husband had been betrayed before,
but nothing like this. And it had been
such a pleasant home. She remem-
bered how proud Eva had been of heI
handsome, even-tempered husband,
how devotedly she had seemed to love
him in those early days. She recalled
the tender condolences Eva had poured
into her ears of his patience, his con
slant kindness and generous devotion
but now, in her impotence and iH-tem.
per, every thing was wrong-petty
faults and foibles, that would have
passed unnoticed in the old days, were
dwelt upon harshly and magnified int
serious defects.
A merry, thoughtless girl, fond o
society and gay pleasures, Eva haC
taken upon herself the duties of wifi
and mother without a thought of how
weary the burden might prove to be.
For two or three years she bore then
remarkably well; she was very proud
of her handsome husband, her pleasan
home and her bright, sprightly littl
girl, whom every one admired an,
petted. But with the coming of tn
second child her cares increased, tn
household duties became heavier, ant
her confinement to home closer. Sh
never realized how largely the nervou
irritation which made her so cross anC
fault-fnding was caused by thes
things.
Confined to her close, warm room
day after day, with rarely any othe
society than her little ones, who share
her irritability, the troubles had in
creased rapidly.
EAOAAA I'll OANttNAOAAt4A I'M NtANANAAt WIN
1t had grown to sharp, angry II
proaches and constant fault-finding
until Richard was beginning to see
pleasure in the society of friends out
side, only to be met with still harshe
words each time on his return
Thoughtless and ignorant of the law
of health, it never occurred to eithe
that a ride or walk each day, fe'
hours in the open air, would do NOR
TO cure all this trouble than woul
either sermons or good resolutions.
The day of Clarice's visit every thinl
had gone wrong. It had been yer
warm, and Eva had spent many hom
in her close, hot kitchen, over the iroI
ing and baking, while May-mischie1
Gus little puSs-had been UNUSUAL
troublesome, scarcely out of one pieC
of mischief before she was into al
other, keeping the baby in constaI
fretfulness by her teasing, until Eva
patience was exhausted without ii
additional vexation of having her hu
band take advantage of a half holida
TO attend a baseball game and della
his return beyond the usual hour.
"Oh, If girls only knew when the
were we'll of, they would never marry,
she said bitterly. as she seated herse
at the parlor window with her frien,
''Just look at the coy life led befol
marriage; and now it is work, worl
from morning till night, no chance f
rest or recreation, no opportunity to {
out, and the children drive me near
wild, while my husband cares no mo-
than a block for all my troubles. O
wish were free once morei l Won
49," she broke of abruptly and lean'
out of the window. For heaven
SAKE" she cried, excitedly, lust loo
at that child May, come out of Il
road this instant, or you'n get a goo
whipping. Dick Hayes, are y
eraEyP There's that child in the mi
die of the road, liable 70 be run ov
any moment A smart man you are
take care Of the childrenp
May was in the street, running he
and there, kicking at some bits Of stol